POT Lobby Bar

POT Luck

Classic Cocktails Get Weird at the Line Hotel

Yesterday: The last day you scoff at the uncivil notion of ever, ever drinking one.

Today:

Today POT Lobby Bar exists, and inside it there’s Roy Choi and Matt Biancaniello reinventing Long
Islands with mezcal and aloe, and it’s now open at the Line Hotel in Koreatown.

It’s a wide hexagonal bar resembling a dark-wood UFO, ready to launch from the lobby’s left flank with a huge
cache of plastic army guys, saint candles, squirt guns, lighters and puffy metallic balloons. It all adds a
regal air of credibility to the drinks. Or not. But plastic army guys are fun, sure. Why not.

It opens at 5pm, so it’s a good late-afternoon spot to hole up in a circular booth to talk to people on
your laptop or to talk to people in person—or later, make it your post-bulgogi stronghold to get you
through these chilly winter nights.

Either way, you’ll be trying unfamiliar versions of familiar drinks—think soju (with kimchi in it), a
Tom Collins (with stinging-nettle-infused gin) and that Long Island Iced Tea, now made with mezcal, blood orange and aloe vera.